In Response to Max Gausch

Is internet monitoring that big of a concern for our nation?
The government does track a lot of our personal daily tasks such as phone calls, texts, voice mail, internet searches, internet purchases, transactions at every bank or ATM, and all other purchases with credit or debit cards. This monitoring makes searching the web easier and faster, and also makes purchasing things with electronic payment methods much quicker. This should not be considered a crime for the government to do this. Studies show that around 90% of Americans have some sort of financial debt. This is from borrowing money from the government, so why shouldn’t they have the right to see what other purchases we are making? If someone wants to not be tracked at all then they can write letters instead of using a phone, and pay with all cash, everywhere they go. Also the organizations that look at this information do it so they can focus on certain consumers. This means that their sales will go up and this will help the economy.

Where does it say that the government can’t monitor American citizens?

Response to Lauren Foley

Do you think that businesses should work on going green?

I think that going green shouldn’t be necessary for organizations. I believe that it would be somewhat helpful to the environment if they were recycling all their waste materials but only if it did save them money. For instance if a company was spending more money and energy on recycling just to be environmentally friendly, I don’t think it is worth it. Organizations definitely shouldn’t be wasteful with their natural resources and go beyond what they really need to be efficient. America is all about money and making money, so as long as the littering and pollution doesn’t get extremely out of control I think the earth will be just fine.

What are some companies that go over the edge in polluting the environment?

Social Entrepreneurs Turn Business Sense To Good

Recently many nonprofit organizations and other organizations that are involves ed in helping improve the natural environment, have been approaching nontraditional plans how to run their business. They are starting to create some of their own revenues and use for-profit business techniques to progress towards their goal as an organization. An example of this would be Neil Keny-Guyer of Mercy Corps. Keny-Guyer turned his relief organization into a global powerhouse with 3,500 employees and a $300,000 budget. He did this by going the capitalist route and purchasing a bank in Indonesia. They call these people “social entrepreneurs”. Another social entrepreneur is Vikram Akula wanted to prove that you can make a decent profit while serving and helping the poor, and not making them a charity case. He is the CEO of SKS Microfinance, which has around 9,500 employees and 3.3 million customers in India and adding roughly 300,000 new clients a month. They don’t turn down poor people when they come to SKS for loans. They feel that believes that it is a win win situation for everyone when people take out loans and uses them for a good reason, for example to start a small store and make a small store bigger. Last year SKS had revenues of $48 million, and a net profit of $6.16 million. This shows that having a for-profit business model helps everyone out in the long run.

What are other companies that should use this business model to help out the society?